"As part of the strategy of retaking the 'lost seats' the party was able to undertake a constituency wide opinion poll of Brecon and Radnor. This told the party two vital things. First, in a straight fight in the seat between all the candidates the Labour party would win, but if the electors believed that it was a two horse race between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives then the Liberal Democrats would win the seat. The party's message now became 'Labour cannot win here but the Tories can'. The message on every leaflet proclaimed 'only Richard Livsey can defeat the Tories'."